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The Osceola times., 1887-11-12
WOMEN OF the WEST.

Prof Ensley's observations on Nomop Ont
West-iow the Right Of suffrage ia,
Affected Them.
In my journey toward the setting
srn. writes Prof Ensley IN the HoR-
ans journal, | have stopped at many
places in Missouri. Kansas. Colorado
and Nebraska While in Kansas. |
made 1t special point to find out
every thing I-could about womari's
vote in that State. Even persons WIN
were opposed to women's voting al,
mittcd 10 me that, as rule. the best
wonei voted, and voted on the side Of
morality aud order. LOT coarse asked
such persons why, ! wpnsa voted tos
The Osceola times., 1887-11-12
morality and order, thsv o,ro.,

morality and order, they oppo,,,
voting. The general reply was. aSan Snsn
it's just this: ! don't believe in so,,| "s|
women mixed up at the polls 'rag nag
men. They are out Of place Ta', WIN
believe in it," 1t is the same ola II
story: W"
fol-. o. do not like thee, Dr. Fell.
The reason why can not tell.
But this ] know, and knew fsll wsu-
J do not like thee, Dr. Fell"
A friend here at Cheyenne ha,,,,..
me to call on Governor Moonligbt
l asked him about his ideas Of 81.
woman suffrage law Nh his Terri,o.' .''
He said that while he had no, ha:
there long enough to know much abon.
it from personal observation, one ,b;".
quite satisfied him, and that was n1ss
the people of all classes in the TerS
tory seemed satisfied with it. and al.
though the law had been in existeroo
nearly twenty years, il was many ye,rs
since there had been any effort To VA.
P'"i i'' 'hi'' otit nc, ought To he
conclusive evidence in its favor"
NY friend, who lives here, tolls NJ.
that the elections in Cheyenne alvoy.
pass off more quietly than in any plase
he ever saw. There is never any drunE.
enness on election days; liquor can M,
be had for love or money. There /.
perfect order and quietness in tle
streets, II takes only oncoilicer the
polls, and if there is any tendency even
to loud talking, the officer simply saws,
"Gentlemen, be quiet; remcmber tha,
ladies are among us, aud at once all
is quiet and orderly.
] must say that SO far as can see.
women are just as modest and gentle
just as soft and easy in their manner
and carriage here as they are in any
part of our country which | have seen,
and it has been my good fortune to
have travelled in thirty-four of our
States and Territories. According to
my Judgment, Boston woman voice
is no more musical than Cheyenne
woman's voice. although the one votes
and The other Is not allowed to do so.
The Osceola times., 1887-11-12
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
bursting of the New watcr-N Norsss E",s'
volr at Little Rock.


The new water works at Iittla Rock,
recently constructed BY Colonel "a ID Ward,
at cost OF many thousand dollDrs, were
to have been opened ON "Wednesday Of
last week, but at ten O'Clock t8e center
wall dividing the two new rtseryoirs.
placed on a mountain, 30 feet above the
city, gave way, and allowed lO,Oi0,OlO ga'.
Ions of water to run back down tie mount
ain side into the rive,. The pumps had
been at work for a week pumpiaJ 5000 ,oOC
gallons per day, filling the two RESERVOIRS,
and the work was about done. iIhe wall
did not break up, but turned over in sec
tions, Just like house. The lower reSer-
voir was full. and the water from fhe upper
rushed into il and caused il to overflow
in a column at least ten feet deep,
which rushed down the mountain, carry
ing two buggies and several teams with
il. The bugses were mover found. Only
one mule was drowned. Preparations
had been made for entertaining a large
nuIaber of guests on the grounds, and the
place selected was just below the res
eryoir, in the path taken by the column Of
water, and had the break occurred one
hour later hundreds of people would have
bt en- swept into the river by the swift
current. The wall was thirty feet high,
twelve and one-half feat at the base and
six feet at the top. VI was built of stone
laid in cement. The damage is $40 900
The wall will be rebuilt at once, and the
works will be in condition within six
weeks. Three men ard two ladies were
out on ths wall when it first gave way, hut
succeeded in getting to the ground before
il fell over
The Osceola times., 1887-11-12
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

OK the 3d the case against John Cough
liz, one OF the men arrested with ''Blinky''
Morgan for the murder of Detective HUI
ligan, was called at Ravenna, o. At The
request Of the prosecution it was post
ponsd until Monday, November IA.
On the ID rock weighing two tons foil
Spon and Instantly killed Howard Taylor,
: mleer, = Whittemore's mine, Washing.
- - II>ffss > s:ss~ sss aims
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-06
A NEW JERSEY wArERsPOUT.
Il Eursts with Terrible Crssi,
and Wipes out n Piece Of
Railroad.

4 New Brunswick (N. j. special
says: After brief but violent thunder.
storm over the village of Tracey's. on
the freehold and Jamesburg railroad,
four miles from Jamesburg, yesterday,
the clouds broke away, the sun came
ont brightly, and the farmers were just
returning to their work in the fields,
when suddenly and without the slight
est warning, with the sun still shining
brightly enough to cast hazy shadow,
there came brilliant and pro-
longed flash of lightning across
and down the western horizon, fol-
lowed instantly 10y the terrific roar
of thunder. Just afterward Farmers
BENJAMIN Messerol and Thomas Hoff-
man, who were looking from window,
saw about a quarter of mile away and
fifty feet in the air an immense cone
shaped cloud, which seemed to revolve
With great rapidity, and all the time to
Lraw near to the earth. 1t gradually
az assumed the shape of an enormous fun
mel inverted, running to an elongated
spiral point Mt the top and spread out
at the lotion so as to cover a circle Of
an acre of ground. When the funnel
was four or five feet from the ground
there came a report louder than the
thunder, followed by crash and then
by continuous roar, while everything
beneath the cloud or near it was blot
ted out in a deluge of water.
The roar of the waterspout was heard
half mile away, and people ran for
their lives from their houses. thinking
it was an earthquake. Ii lasted very
few minutes, and when it was over it
was seen that 400 feet of the railroad
track, where the waterspout burst.
within few rods of the station, had
been swept out bodily and carried with
a great mass of earth into the lower
ground on the south side of the track.
Twenty-eight steel rails hung across
the chasm, with the ties clinging to
them, skeleton of the vanished track.
The earth had been swept from under
them so quickly that they had not been
carried with it. 1t took the whole
available force of the road all night to
repair the gap. Demage to other pro-
perty in the neighborhood was not Sc
riOus
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-06
LANGSTON'S TRIAL.
noRgIxPERT rTsrrMoNY-LAReEAT.
TENDANCE AT rHg TRIAL.
The Wounds the Cause Of Dssth-More
About Puryear's History
Of His Life.
rcorrespopdcnce of tho Richmond pl.patcb.I

lCOrresponucbcc VI 'uc hicnmonn DiSPoNH'
PETERSBURG, Va, August 8, 1887.
DIR. Il. ID. McIlwaine, the young
physician who attended John II. Ruifin
and performed the delicate operation
OF laparotomy upon him, closed ms
testimony in the Hastings Court last
night after a most trying and rigid
cross-examination of two days duri.
ton by Langston's counsel. lie stood
the ordeal with remarkable compomre,
and was ready at all times to answer
the most difficult and delicate questions
propounded to him. To-day DR.. s. W.
Budd, one Of our most prominent phy-
sicians, who assisted in the operation
performed on Rufiin and administered
the chloroform, was placed upon the
witness-stand, and his examination has
been in progress all day. His opinion
as to the wounds made by Langstons
bullet was emphatically that two of the
three were necessarily fatal, the third
dangerous, and the three COM
bined were the cause of death.
The evidence OF the three ply
sicians thus far examined agrees in the
important fact that tie wounds caused
death, and that no treatment, however
slilful, would have been of avail. DIR.
Budds testimony to-day covered as
wide n range as that of his predeces-
sor. The defence seem to lay much
stress upon the lack of appliances and
the improper preparation Of the instru-
nlents used in the performance OF the
operation upon Ruflin, as also to the
failure of the physicians who held the
| post mOrten to find the ball.
The attendance on the trial continues
as large as on the first day. The scien-
tifc points broughtout in the trial have
aroused an interest among the educated
people of the community, and profess
sional and businessmen constitute o
large portion OF the audience each day.
The probability is that the trial will
last through the greater portion OF next
week, as several medical experts are yet
| TO be examined. It's rumored that the
defence will put upon the stand rs an
expert one of Virginia's most distin-
guished surgeons.
The prisoner is accompanied by his
father every day, as well as 10y num-
Der of bis colored friends. He is youth
ful in appearance, very bright in color,
and shows remarkable composure during
the trial. He listens to everything
with interest, but is apparently rs I'M
concerned rs the most Indifferent spec
fator in the OIIrt-rOOrn
1t is understood that efforts are being
made in Richmond to have Puryear' 8
history Of his life published. Puryear
is apparently resigned to his fate, and,
| it is said, has written to Sheriff Young
blood, of Prince George, to obtain per-
mission for young friend Of his to be
admitted to the iail-yard to witness the
execution. One would imagine that a
real friend of the prisoner would hardly
wish to see him hanged.
ROBIN ADAIR.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-06
ORGANIZATION.

Not the least important and practical
resolution passed 10y the Roanoke con-
.yention was that authorizing the State
Central Committee "to adopt a plan OF
county and city organization and to
provide for the immediate reorganiza-
tion of the party in each city and
county in tie Commonwealth" Tho
platform 10 strong il itself, but organi-
cation is more than half of any politi-
cal battle. 1t is well, therefore, that
we should be up and doing right away
in respect OF this matter. The sooner
we organize the more effective
will lie our discipline on the
cay of election. Aside from al
other considerations, the greater the
earDestncss we show and the larger the
Democratic vote cast. the more appa-
rent will il become to the bondholders
that Virginia "will never support or
sanction any adjustment OF the dcbt
which stall impose larger liability
upon this Commonwealth than that
recognized and provided for by the
T.pD1KsERGER bill" and that sheis de-
to:mined to render "such settlement
c6ocHw. Gnai, and GseisiOe." Let
us, therefore, have an organization
more perfect il possible than the or
pauizatlon Of 1858, and in order to
let cur young men especially, place
theiy time au3 energies at the disposal
q lie lariy.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-06
The Good Templars.

Especial telegram TO the Dispatch.]
PURCELLvILLE, VA, August 5.-The
fourth day of the temperance bush.
meeting being set apart for the colored
people, e large audience assembled on
the grounds to-day, and were addressed
by Professor d. N. Vassar, of Richmond,
Rev. DIR. Wilson, Hon. Luther Benson,
Rev. W. II. Brooks, of Washington, d..
g., and others.
A public meeting was held at Lincoln
last night to discuss the propriety OF
forming q prohibition organization for
the State.
A number of short addresses were
made, some advocating immediate nc.
ton and others opposing it upon the
ground OF its being inexpedient at the
present time. The following resolution
finally was adopted:
RcsOIUe6, That we, the temperance
men of Loudoun. irrespective of party,
believe that the time has arrived Tor
calling State convention to consider
the propriety of organizing a prohibi-
ton party.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-06
MVRDERaD ny HER FATHER.
A Beautiful Girl Stabbed TO the
Heart.
New York 1imes.l

l.Ntn i'ih i'hNo'l
The old.fashioned two-story -and-attic
frame house at IS Jackson street, near
south street, known as the old Ferry
House, was the scene Of hIdeous trag-
edy last night. Frank Pittman, truck
driver, stabbed to the heart his daugh
ter Rachel, girl nineteen years old,
killing her almost instantly.
The house was originally a tavern
and popular resort when many years
ago the Brooklyn ferry ran from the
foot of jackson street. The ground
floor is occupied by the Old Ferry Point
Club, an organization of Eastsiders,
who meet there to talk about old times,
and en- the upper floors live the Pitt
man family. Pittmin has been en-
ployed many years driving trucks for
south. street warehouses. He is ma
tive of ills city, forty-eight years old.
socently be has worked but little and
has been drinking great deal. He
has an ungovernahie temper, and it was
aggravated 10y drink. His family con-
sisted of his wife, three daughters, and
two sons, and Mrs. Rachel Codgill, the
widowed mother of Mrs. Pittman.
Rachel was the oldest daughter and
the beauty of the family. She was
girl of intelligence as well as of inde-
pendent spirit. Her father often quar-
relied with her on account Of her at
tempts to raise herself, as he said, above
the level of the family. The three girls
worked i'll the paper-bag factory OF
Robert Gair, at l63 Chambers street.
Three months ago Rachel made the ac-
qlaintance of Franklin Lewis, an in
dustrious young man employed as a
driver for the Glen Cove Manufactu-
ring Company, in South street. Since
that time Lewis has been paying atten-
ton to the girl, and they Were betrothed.
Pittman was opposed to the union, not
that he objected to Lewis, but on gene
raj principles. He said that none OF his
girls should get married while he lived.
On the morning of July ODD, when
Rachel left home to go to work, her
father asked her where she was going.
She told him, and he retorted by telling
her she lied and said, she was going to
ibSts AeNiS. Dilc sdIu suC NdS uDt,
though she would 90 there if she de-
SIZED. He swore that he would follow
her. and chen the girl, instead OF going
to work, went back into the ho1se.
Her father beat her cruelty that day,
and Rachel packed up her clothing aud
left the house, telliog her parents that
she would never return home.
Rachel went to Miss Rebecca Fream,
who lives with her brother, John
Fream, at SO Cannon street. Miss
Fream had been Rachel's Sunday
school teacher at the livingston Street
Methodist church and had known the
girl from childhood. She gladly gave
the young woman shelter, and Rachel
lived there until last night. Her sister
Sadie was making dress for her, and
Rachel went to her old home to try the
garment on. She was accompanied by
Lewis, who had met her at Grand
street.
They entered about 0 o'clock and
met Pittmsn. who appeared TO have
been drinking and was in bad tenn
per. he greeted tire couple roughly,
and asked Rachel il she intended TO
come home to live. The girl replied
firmly that she would not Then turn
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-06
Business at Newport News.

Correspondence Of tho Richmond Dispatch.l
NEWPORT NEWS, VA, Aug. 4, 1887.
The following business was trans
acted at this port last month
Entrances of Vcssels-Foreign Bri-
fish, 3-tons, 4.916; Spanish, 2-tons,
4,030. Total, 5--tons, S,9l6.
Clearances Foreign British, g.
tons, ~, $50 ; American. 3-tons, 4,455
Spanish. 4-tons, 7,G11 Italian, /
tons, 4SS. Total, 17-tons, u, $40.
Domestic Exports Cattle, $1,000 ;
horses, 81, OC0; sheep, $1,000; wheat,
Sl41 $40; flour, $93, 615; coal, 80, 3l5
oil-cake, S{,375; bacon, 1898; lard,
$S,615; tobacco, Sl5S, 558; lumber,
S31, 65l ; sundries, 1912. Total, $780,
3Sl.
Foreign Imports (for consumption :
Tin plate. SiS, 104 soda ash, 1881 ;
salt, SG,724; caustic soda, S3,3l2 ;
earthenware. $3,302 ; sundries, 81, 46l.
Total, $72, 1877.
Fer transportation to other ports :
To Chicago, $25, $50; st. Lonis, $40
C33; Louisville, S5,Hl; Cincinnati,
81, 2S4 st. Joseph, S., 739; Milwlu-
kee. s., 09t; Richmond, Sl69; Indian
apolis, s., Alb. Total, $40. 725.
Total value of imports, Sil9, 1852.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-06
Tie youth Understands It.

That esteemed Republican organ and
exvon, nj OF evolution the st. Louis
Ciote-EomocTat evolves the follow
ing:
tile timo has come, therefore, for
The Republican party to tell the South,
In language which 1t viii understand,
that the Rerubl;can concern Tor the
pselo as negro ends when he is per-
nn,ed to enjoy the rightsaccorded him
by the inw."
The beauty OF that paragraph is that
il is strictly true, but not in the sense
Intended by the Globe Democrat. Re-
rulliran concern for the negro ends
iust as soon as the Republican party
fnGs that it cannot control the negro
vote as "a commodity in bulk" We
sssure the Gtobe- Democrat that the
south fully understands this.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-06
yne President Invited TO Memphis.

WASHINGTON, August 5.-The dele
CATION ofcitizens from Memphis, Teuu.,
waited on the President ut the White
House to- day and invited him to visit
that city on his western trip this
autumn. Judge y. NJ. Estes was the
spokesman for the party, and in extend
ing the invitation he assured the Presl-
dent of the most cordial welcome and
hospitality. Judge Estes reminded
the President that he must
be sure to bring Mrs. Cleve-
land with him, as the daugh-
tiers of the South had a geat desire
to welcome her in their midst aud TO
testify their admiration for her mode
esty and worth. The President said
in reply that he was extremely gratifed
at the cordiality and earnestness of
their invitation, and that while it was
impossible to give positive answer at
present, it was more probable than
probable that he would accept. he
thought that he could let them know
definitely through Senator Harris IN a
few days.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-06

He Was "a Dead Dog Two Hours
Ieter-snaltes aud ftackie.
berries.

A Scranton special says: Joseph
Hcyl, of Petersburg, went mp on Moo
sic mountain tie other day to pick
bucklebenies. Two dogs followed
him, and after he had been picking for
awhile be heard one of the dogs yelp-
ing. Mr.. Feyl paid no attention to
the noise at first. but as the dog con-
,inued to howl he ran over to the spot
and found flat a rattlesnake had
struck the dog just back of one OF
bis iore-legs. He killed the snake,
and pretty soon the dog stopped
whining and accompanied his mas.
ter TO another part of the field. All at
once the dog began to limp, and Mr..
Heyl took him home and packed him
in soft mud, but he was a dead dog
two hours from the time he had been
bitten. The next day Mr.. Heyl, while
picking berries in the same field, came
ecross three other big rattlers, which
be killed, and yesterday berry picker
named Yost found half dozen rattle
snakes on the same ridge and brought
them home as trophies. Near Archbold
last Monday Miss Mary Grady smashed
the head OF an enormous raitlesnake
TINT got in her way as she was trudging
along the path with a pail o; berries on
her head. She put her pail on stump,
seized stone, and soon put an end to
the reptile.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-06
SATURDAY. AUGUST 6. 1887
II Must Go.
The internal-revenue plank OF the
Roanoke platform reads !:

II Must Go.
The internal-revenue plank Of the
Roanoke platform reads
eve demand the immediate repeal
Of the internal.revenue system, relic
of the war, and no longer necessary to
meet the demands of the Government,
because il is oppressive, fosters mo-
nopolies, and is obnoxious to the in
terests Of our people"
That is strong and positive enough
for oil practical purposes, but it Is
nevertheless mild compared with the
utterances Of the Nashville american
touching the iniquitous system"
That paper says:
"To give the States the benefit OF this
money is q controlling argument, but
there is still greater reason. This in
ternal Federal tax is war tax-it was
levied in q great emergency it was put
on the people and kept there for twenty
years by the Republican party as the
most effective of all its war measures
for centralizing the Government. The
taxes are collected under a system Of
shotgIlns, spies, and espionage that
would make Nihilists OF the Russian
serfs, and in the United States has done
more to make people hate and despise
the Government under which they live
than all the other laws ever passed and
enforced by that centralizing missioner
the Republican party"
But the american does not stop
there. Hear it rebuke one of its con-
temporaries for advocating internal
taxes:
Rob the States to make the Fede-
eral Government strong. Give the
Federal Government "a system OF spies
and informers with money rs the in
ducement TO seize the innocent, and
then commit perjury 10 sustain the
seizure-a system that makes every
elevated Judge in tho circuit and dis
trict courts ashamed Of his work.
system that cruelty and inhumanly
drags thousands and thousands of poor,
helpless people away from home, away
from their own counties, away from
friends to go security, away from fam
lily, to furnish clothing and shamefully
starve them while they await trial, or
confne them in Jail until sometimes the
entire crop Of a whole section is de-
stroyed."
Does the american overdraw the
picture in either Of the paragraphs we
have quoted from it Not i'll the least,
as every one is aware who knovs any
thing about the way in which the Re-
publican party used the machinery of
The Internal Revenue Bureau III the
mountainous sections OF the South.
Indeed does it appear that the internal,
or, as the dncric0B puts it, the IN
feInal revenue system, must 90. To
Y;reinians We would say that tneirmost
important step in the matter OF doing
thoir part towards ajoiishing it will be
tie c.t ction of a Democratic Legisla-
ture, aid the consequent putting OF
arother Democrat III the United States
SCpate.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-06
NORFOLK.
TIE EXCESSIVE MORTALITY DURING
rHy MONTH or JULY.
portsmouth's Rev Postmaster Heavy
Rains In the Dismal Swamp
Personal Notes.

rCo,reepcndence Of the Richmond Dispa,ch.l
NORFOLK, August 5, 1897.
The health officer of Norfolk has just
completed his mortuary report and
states that the death-rate for the month
of July was higher than any month be-
fore in the history OF the city, and at
tributes the increased mortality to the
excessive and sickcning heat.
This morning Postmaster William A.
Fiske took possession of his Office in
Portsmouth, relieving the Republican
incumbent, Mr.. A. II. Lindsay. 1t is
reported that Mr.. Lindsay will run for
the Legislature in the county this fall.
There are hard rains every day now,
and in the Dismal-Swamp section OF
the county all the road-bridges are
afoat and the cornhelds knee-deep in
water.
Pleasure fishing parties by steam
and sail now daily leave for the lower
Chesapeake, and the sport just now is
said to be glorious-choice spots, hog
fish, and trout biting freely. y
1t is asserted that the lawyers have
discovered that the title to the Gospori
Cotton-Docks, a portion Of the assets
of the broken Exchange National Bank,
is not clear, and therefore the sale OF
the property to the New York syndi-
cate is off. This is not true as to the
title.
President Robinson end the directors
Of the Seaboar1 and Roanoke railroad
inspected the Roanoke and Tar River
division yesterday.
Stonewall Camp. Confederate Veto
rams, appropriated another 500 last
night for the relief of the widows and
orphans of Confederate soldiers.
The wrecking-steamer Victoria Peed
left last night for the Appomattox river
to raise the sunken steamer George
Law.
Rev. Father Cutler, assistant pastor
at st. Mary's church, has been present
cd with a handsome gold watch and
chain by his congregation. q.